This abstract painting features a bold interplay of colors and shapes. The dominant shades of burnt orange and muted gray create a sense of urban decay, with jagged lines and overlapping geometric forms evoking a fragmented, industrial landscape. The artist's expressionistic brushwork and layered textures give the piece a gritty, weathered quality, reflecting the rawness and complexity of the modern urban environment. The work's somber, almost apocalyptic tone suggests a commentary on the impersonal nature of modern life and the unsettling realities that underlie the facade of urban progress. ...
Gabriel Hartley’s work combines optical effects and iconic markings on highly textured surfaces. His work summons early Modernism’s play with abstraction and perspective. With bold linear brushstrokes and organic, elemental shapes, Hartley’s forms play with space and movement.
His painterly effects – generated through a mix of gloss and matte paint – convey both a flatness and a depth that produce a palpable sense of tension. The dusty quality of Hartley’s impasto surfaces recall the paintings of School of Paris artist Jean Fautrier.
Hartley fuses seemingly opposing elements: the painterly and the photographic, flatness and depth, and two and three dimensionality. He simultaneously constructs and excavates – building subjects and unraveling them – to create figures at once formative and timeworn.
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